The Mind of a Poet*

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We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
Charles Bukowski (via hailthepagesturning)

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I return upstairs and my two cats follow me, they are fine fellows, we have no discontent, we have no arguments, we listen to the same music, never vote for a president.
Charles Bukowski (via bluerthanvel-vet)

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There is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock.
people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.
people just are not good to each other
one on one.
the rich are not good to the rich
the poor are not good to the poor.
we are afraid.
our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners.
it hasn’t told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.
or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone
untouched
unspoken to
watering a plant.
Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell (via fwuakem)